Referring to the draft personal data protection law recommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee last month, Gopalakrishnan said that India is likely to have in place a data protection law within a few months.

In its report, the panel has called for a new legislation to protect an individual’s right over data. It says neither the right to privacy, nor the Right to Information is absolute and that the two will have to be balanced against each other in certain circumstances.

The Justice Srikrishna Committee’s final report has missed an opportunity to separate the conflicting roles played by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by bringing the UIDAI under the proposed Data Protection Authority’s (DPA) purview.

The exhaustive set of requirements for notice, consent and grounds of processing personal data of Indians in the draft data privacy bill will force startups to rework their core systems, take fresh consent, and change their data practices

Alleged personal details of Indias telecom watchdog chief R.S. Sharma were leaked on Saturday after the TRAI chairman threw a challenge and tweeted his 12-digit Aadhaar asking if it had made him vulnerable to any security risk.

Prasad Rai, Vice President, Applications, Oracle India speaks on how enterprise users can now migrate their ERP application to its cloud platform in a smarter, speedier and safer manner, and how it could be the last upgrade they will ever do.